1. Between the Wars activity: It is found on my weebly under “Between the Wars” then click on “Daily Plans.”

2. Day 1: The Armenian Genocide Fri. 18, 21 Video and response
Include the following information 1. What is genocide?
2. Who are the Armenians?
3. When and where did this genocide take place?
4. Define the word atrocities.
5. Describe what atrocities that occurred.
6. How did the government use prison inmates?
7. Describe what happened in the desert?
8. What is the estimated death toll?
9. What was the U.S. response?
10. What is the viewpoint of the Turkish government today? .

3. Desert

4. Day 2: The flu pandemic of 1918 Tues. 22, 23
Weebly reading “The Influenza or Flu Pandemic of 1918…”
1. What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?
2. Where do experts think this started?
3. How did it spread to America from Europe?
4. How many died world-wide? In America?
5.Using the death toll from WWI listed on “Results of WWI” reading, make a ratio expressing the number of flu deaths to the number of WWI deaths.
6. What are the symptoms?
7. How did they try to stop it?
8. What is a quarantine?
9. What were the effects on doctors and nurses?
10. What and where is the Center for Disease Control?
12. How do you think people would react if a similar pandemic hit today?

5. Day 3: The roaring 20’s: Search internet
1. Describe this time period. Why is it called the roaring 20’s?
2. When did women get the right to vote and what amendment was that?
3. When did Native Americans get the right to vote?
4. What was prohibition? When was that amendment passed and what amendment repealed (did away with) it?
5. Who were Al Capone and Elliot Ness?
6. What was the Charleston?
7. Who was Charles Lindbergh and what did he do?
8. What happened in October of 1929? Why was it called Black Thursday?
9. Find some music from the 20’s and listen to a song. Comment on it.
10. What was the Teapot Dome scandal?
11. What record did Babe Ruth set and when? Who was on the Yankee’s murderer’s row?
12. What was the Black Sox Scandal (“Say it ain’t so Joe.”) and who was shoeless Joe Jackson? !

6.  Day 4 The Great Depression
1. What is a depression? When did this one occur and when did it end?
2. What helped end it?
3. Was it just in the United States? Give unemployment figures for the U.S.
4. What were Hoovervilles and why were they called that?
5. What did President Roosevelt try to do to end the depression?
6. What did he say was the only thing we had to fear?
7. What were Okies?
8. What was the dust bowl? Was it caused by global warming if droughts today are blamed on that?
9. What did the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway have to do with the depression?
10. Who were “Cinderella Man” and “Sea Biscuit” and how did they offer hope to people?
11. Opinion: The rich obviously knew there was a depression. Would the poor have noticed anything different? .

7. What advice did he give to her for the Czar?
Day 5: The Russian Revolution: Use power point on my weebly on the Russian Revolution
1. Five min. vid. On Russian Rev. 2 min. on Rasputin (Tues. Vid. On Stalin’s purges) (Teacher)
1. Why was Czar Nicholas reluctant to bring reforms?
2. Who was Gregor Rasputin, and what influence did he have over the Czar’s wife?
What advice did he give to her for the Czar?
What happened to Rasputin and what was unusual about the event?
What three hardships did the war cause for Russia?
Who was the President of Russia?
Who led a second revolution to overthrow the president?
What type of Government did he set up?
What were two of Lenin’s first actions?
Why was there a civil war?
What was the new name for the country?
Who came to power when Lenin died?
13. Describe elections and what happened to those voting against the Communist candidate.
14. What were Gulags? What were purges?
16. How many deaths do some think Stalin caused, not counting war deaths, and how does this compare with Hitler?

8. Day 6: Atrocities in Nanking (See reading on my weebly for answering questions.)
When did this occur and where?
What angered the Japanese before the carnage (bloodshed) began?
What orders were Japanese soldiers given when they captured Nanking?
Why did they look upon captured soldiers with contempt?
Why did those in command want soldiers to inflict pain and suffering as they killed the captives?
Describe the atrocities.
What happened to those not killed on the spot?
How did the Japanese try to pacify the rest of the population and what was the result?
How did Japanese newspapers justify this? Why do you think people accepted
this reasoning, and can people be blindly lead to follow bad people today?
10. Who were the Europeans and Americans who tried to help?
11. Describe what they did.

9. Day 7: The German collapse into evil; The Weimar Republic (use Years of Crisis)
1. What three parts of the Treaty of Versailles humiliated the Germans?
2. What was Hitler’s opinion of German acceptance of the treaty?
3. How much of its European territory did Germany lose?
4. What countries occupied the Rhineland (Rhine River area)?
5. How much was Germany actually fined and how much did they pay?
6. How did they pay?
7. How much did the U.S. receive?
8. How did the German government respond to high inflation (rising of prices)?
9. What did France and Belgium do when Germany defaulted (refused to pay) on its loans?
10. Calculate the % inflation rate for a loaf of bread from 1919 until 1923.
11. What started inflation in 1920?
12. Compare the value of a 50 million mark note in 1923 to that in 1914.
13. What type of government did the radical right and the radical left want?
14. Who did the right blame for losing the war? Continued on next slide.

10. Crisis continued:
15. What was the first challenge to the Weimar Republic?
16. How did the right-wing Friekorps respond?
17. What was Germany’s first violation of the Versailles treaty?
18. What does Nazi stand for?
19 What did Hitler do in 1923?
20. What happened to him as a result?
21. What were his prison conditions, and how long did he serve?
22. What was Mein Kampf about?
23. When was the ‘Golden Era’? Describe it.
24. What was the Dawes Plan?
25. How was Germany’s progress funded?
26. What led to the collapse of the German economy and high unemployment?
27. When did Hitler become Chancellor and what were his first acts?
28. How did Hitler use a fire to become more like a dictator?
29. When did Hitler become a dictator?